Re: du make check failure on Solaris 5.5 and 5.8 in coreutils-4.5.9

[Jim Meyering]

Vin Shelton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> Vin Shelton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> In coreutils-4.5.9 on the Sparc Solaris machines at work, I'm getting
>>> a 'make check' failure in the basic du test.  Here is the failure
>>> under Solaris-5.5; as you can see the basic test fails:
>>
>> Hi Vin!
>>
>> Thank you for the report!
>> Here's a patch:
>>
>>   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/msg00046.html
>>
> Thanks for the speedy response, but the proposed patch didn't work.

I've looked at your actual results this time :-)
The problem appears to be that your filesystem (BTW, which type is it?)
requires zero blocks for files like a/b/c that are small enough.
I think I've fixed the test script for next time by requiring
that the blocksize and block-count match for files as well as for
directories.  So on your system, the new du/basic test would be skipped.
But maybe I can do better:

Would you please find out how big a file has to be in order to get a
non-zero block count?  Then I'll change the test so that the files
it uses are at least that big.

Thanks,
Jim